Last updated: 22-Aug-18 By Andy Mouncey You Can’t Fire A Cannon From A Canoe. All of which basically means you can’t expect to blast up and down mountains if you are a jelly on legs. Ultras – especially mountain ultras – are a full body undertaking which means if all you do is run you’re […]
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Last updated: 21-Aug-18 By Andy Mouncey 1 The Distance Remember – it’s never the distance on its own which will kill you. What the distance does is compound the cumulative stuff you have to deal with. There’s always more than one thing happening and it will happen time and time again. This means that the stuff
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Last updated: 21-Aug-18 By Andy Mouncey Harnessing Your Emotions: Why bother? In my experience as a competitor and coach, the greater the distance of the event, the greater the role of your mental skills and your ability to manage your emotions. In the world of ultra-distance, being in the right physical shape only gets you
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Last updated: 21-Aug-18 Last week we published Andy Mouncey’s first top ten tips to make it in the world of ultra running. Here are another 10. By Andy Mouncey 11. Wish You Were Here You get more inspiring landscapes in an ultra. Unless your thing is going to be those 24 hour track races, of
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Last updated: 21-Aug-18 By Andy Mouncey 1. No Bluffing You can’t bluff in an ultra – ignore your basics and the warning signs at your peril. The stuff you can get away with over 26.2 miles can seriously compromise your performance and even cause you to DNF over 40, 50 & 100 miles. That hotspot
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